Media representation Flashcards by Marcus Hayes

Hall ethnicity

Blacks and asians have dark charechteristics - cause of socail problems

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Hall ethnicity

Deviance \ lawbreakers - their lives revolve around crimes
Posing a threat on society through non British values
The cause of social problems - eg 2011 riots - economic strain taking up welfare benefits

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Beattie et al and malik - ethlicity entertainment

Blacks more likely to be athletes / rappers than proffesionals

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Islamophobia - ethnicity

A lot more after 9/11 and 2005 bombings
Mayor of London 2007 report 91% of reports on muslims were negative

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Ownership and control ethnicity

Agebda setting and clickbait : eg stephen lawrence murder

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Shiller globalization - ethnicity

Cultural imperialism reproduces views such as Eastern european being terrorists or villains ; rocky

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Evaluation of Shiller

Assumes non westerners are passive

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Evaluation Hall et al

Ethnocentric bias, disreagrds progress made

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Evaluation ethnicity

Disregards other influences of the social structure- focuses on interactions

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Chandler age

Talks about pester power making kids a target audience

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How are kids presented 7 ways

Little devils, accessories, kids as victims, nostalgia of being a kid, little angels

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AGe -Cohen adolecents

moral panics around youth - theyre a scapegoat and have little power so easily targetted

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Old age

in US - 1.5% of old people old- often seen as not able to take care of themself- either invisible or negative - strain economically

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Tom Shakespeare - disability

1st hand experience - believes they are made disabled by media reps and society - known as disabilism
Used as cheap laughs in tv - lazy scripwriting

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Barnes disability

Also 1st hand experience - identifies repetitive stereortypes
pitable / pathetic
Sinister and evil in tv - james bond villains
sexually abnormal
not productive members of society
super cripple - only reported doing something unexpected

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Roper disability

Cute for fundraising events

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Pluralists disabilities

Low rep, untrue stereotypes

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Disability evaluation

More woke society
Seen as heroic when they do something unexpected

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metrosexual

Men who embrace their feminime side

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Hetrosexuality - sex

Highlights women bodies for views - mulvey male gaze

Mcrobbie sex

Men are now judged physichally similarly to women

Gross - media today sex

Sexual anhilation of gays due to low representation in media

Cowan sex

1/5 people think media is responsible for negative stereotypes

Pluralists sex

Media is no longer done through male gaze

Pink pound

Market specifically aimed at gay people

What was support for Ellen and George Micheal coming out

Ellen 1997 - positive George 1998 - negative Lil NAS x - negative 2019- rapper

Working class

Genrally underrepresented - typically stereotyped as lazy, unconformative - promote meritocracy

Curren and Seaton - class

Wc little interest in public affairs More interested in sports and celebrities

Jones class

Wc is romanticised - often seen as community coming together

Why is Eastenders controversial

one of Largest wc representative in uk media- written by mc

Evaluation of wc

Marxists - done to maintain inequalities Pluralists - different perspectives in media

Weltman - class

Term chav is a stereotype and technique the media use to discredit wc cultures

Middle class

Over represented . life shown positively promoting meritocracy promoted view that it is the new common lifestyle to aim for

Marxists mc evaluation

Reps erve to legitimise ineqALITIES

Pluralist mc evaluation

media dontcare about mc - only want profits

MC evaluations

over represented - form of cultural imperialism promoting western society Often played as white hetrosexuals

nEWman upper class

Media pay too much attention on expensive goods while portraying them. they are often portrayed as handsome and polite

Evaluation on upper class

Neo - marxists see it as celebrating the wealthy - legitimising inequalities Pluralists - they are presented how people want to see them

Dowlings ethnicity

During 2000s the media blamed many social problems on East Europeans, £50 going, few jobs, increased crime

Cottle ethnicity

The media use key words such as we and them when refering to immigrants

Biggs - age

UK tv sitcoms show old men negatively

What are stereotypes for old people

Sexually abnormal, over-reliant, incapable, forgetful and stupid

How are old women presented

Almost invisible as women are seen as forever young and beutiful

How do Wolf and Tebbel believe women are stereotyped

Wag, Sex object, supermum, angle, ball breaker, victim

What is Ferguson's cult of femenity

Women who read magazines in the 80s shaped their view on gender norms from it

How many journalists in major companies in Western societies did a women's group claim were men

74%

What is symbolic anhilation

Gross and Tuchman came up with the term.

What is an evaluation from Gauntlett on sexual anhilation.

Representation may affect people differently if one is part of that group and the other is not. Baudrillard believes this causes hyperreality while the GMG claim it creats cultural hegemony.